Op/Ed

3/16/2018 First Lady Melania again stated her intentions to battle on-line bullying, the practice of using social media to insult and berate others. The good news is that she doesn’t need to walk very far to confront her husband, one of the biggest bullies on social media.  The bad news is that she hasn’t confronted him, won’t confront him, and ...

2/28/2018  Today the President said that police should take immediate action, take the guns, and worry about “due process” later. During a meeting with congressional leaders about guns, Vice President Pence suggested that additional tools should be given to law enforcement to confiscate additional weapons from those who posed a risk, after going to court and going through the process ...

2/24/2018 At one point, some Republicans thought the Mueller investigation into Russian meddling was on its last legs.  Republican Devin Nunes had prepared a secret memo outlining how the investigation was unjust, biased, and grossly unfair to the President. Republicans who had seen the memo claimed that it contained claims of official corruption so great, they eclipsed the atrocities of Nixon’s ...

02/13/2018 Former White House Staff Secretary John Porter has been a wife beater for some time.  He abused both of his ex-wives before he became Staff Secretary in the Trump White House.  Trump’s Chief of Staff, John Kelly, almost certainly knew that there was an issue, but apparently didn’t care. As Trump’s White House Staff Secretary, Porter was in charge ...

1/13/2018 President Trump again today decried "Fake News", and claimed the Wall Street journal misquoted him during a taped interview. The discrepancy stems from a point in the interview where Trump talks about his relationships with world leaders.  From the recording, it very clearly sounds as though he says "I have a a good relationship with Kim Jong Un", which ...

1/6/2018 President Trump seems to be falling apart.  In what can only be called an embarrassing attempt to dictate that he is of sound mind, the president tweeted that he is stable and a genius as well. The tweets came after the recent release of Michael Wolff's book "Fire and Fury".  In the book, Wolff described the sentiment of White ...

1/3/2018 On New Year’s Day, Kim Jong Un stated North Korea’s nuclear arsenal is a real threat and that he has a nuclear launch button on his desk at all times.  Mr Kim said the entire US was within range of North Korean nuclear weapons, adding: “This is reality, not a threat.” President Trump responded with the following tweet: North Korean Leader ...

01/01/2018 There were some big ones, some really big ones.  And there were many, very many lies.  As a matter of fact, Donald Trump set an all time record for telling lies during his short tenure (Trump tells over 2,000 lies )  But when we look back at the year and try to pick out the biggest lie Donald Trump told ...

10/20/2017 Yesterday, John Kelly made another appearance at the White House press conference.  He served with honor as a decorated Marine General. He is a Gold Star father, having lost his son in Afghanistan.  As Chief of Staff to the president, he is a civilian. Kelly made an attempt to come to the rescue of the president who has bungled handling ...

10/16/2017 When asked about Steve Bannon and his war on Republicans, Trump explained that things are not getting done.  Of course, and to no one’s surprise, Trump claimed it wasn’t his fault, but the fault of Republican Congressmen. Trump’s statements made many people wonder:  If things are not getting done, who is in charge to make sure they get done.  ...